KILIFI RISES.
OUR TIME IS NOW.
"I am not asking Kilifi to follow me. I am asking Kilifi to rise with me, and together, we will build a county the world cannot ignore."
Our Time Is Now · Kilifi Yetu. Kesho Yetu. Ushindi Wetu. Kilifi Rises.
TO EVERY PERSON IN KILIFI
You Are Not Forgotten. You Are the Foundation.
I speak to you not as a stranger arriving with promises. I speak as one of you. I was born in the dust of Mijomboni village in Malindi, the son of parents who never sat in a classroom. I lost my father when I was seven years old, the same year I started school. My mother raised six of us alone, with no income and no safety net.
I know your hunger. I know your frustration. I know what it feels like to watch Kilifi's extraordinary gifts, this ocean, this land, this sun, these people, squandered election after election by leaders who see a county to be milked, not a people to be served.
"That era is over. Kilifi's moment has arrived."
MY PROMISE
Seven pillars for a Kilifi that rises.
Built from the proclamation. Measured by results.
Every ward gets extension services, subsidized seeds, and irrigation. Every farmer gets fair prices. Kilifi's soil will feed its people and fill its treasury.
210 km of ocean coastline, activated. Fishing cooperatives, mariculture, and marine tourism for women and youth. Your ocean becomes your income.
Exclusive county bursary fund. ECDE centers in all 35 wards. School feeding. No Kilifi child drops out because their parent cannot pay fees.
Enterprise funds, TVET centers, girls' education support and a dedicated boys program. The young generation will have a county government that fights for them, not against them.
I have never stolen from the public. I never will. Transparent contracts, public audits, open procurement, and a whistleblower hotline from day one.
An industrial park, agro-processing hubs, and Special Economic Zone status. Kilifi stops exporting raw materials and starts building finished goods, and jobs.
Waste-to-Energy technology turns our waste problem into electricity. Clean certified beaches become magnets for tourists and investors. 500+ green jobs created.
Miradi · Proven Before the Title
Action Before Office
Karisa has not waited for a government title to serve Kilifi. Here are three landmark community initiatives, all self-funded, all for the people.
A self-funded, county-wide behaviour change campaign against teenage pregnancy, reaching thousands of Kilifi girls with zero public funding and zero government support.
As Chairman of the Kilifi County Cassava Farmers and Processors Association, Karisa organised smallholder farmers, processors, and market linkages, entirely from personal savings.
A community-led safety strategy to address MAWOZA gang violence, driven entirely by community action, led by Karisa's campaign movement, with no government involvement required.
Karisa J. Fagio · Governor 2027
For Every Person in Kilifi: You Are Not Forgotten. You Are the Foundation.
To every farmer in Ganze, every fisher in Malindi, every mother in Kaloleni, every young person in Mtwapa who has been told by poverty and neglect that they are not enough: you are more than enough. You are everything.
"For too long, Kilifi's story has been written by those who took from this land without giving back. Today, we rewrite that story, together. Not as desperate people waiting for handouts from leaders who forget us after election day. But as proud, determined, united Kilifi people."
CLEAN COAST AND GREEN ENERGY
Power That Reaches the Home, the Farm, and the Village
Waste-to-Energy technology turns our waste problem into electricity. Clean certified beaches become magnets for tourists and investors. 500+ green jobs created.
"Beaches so clean they carry international certification. A coastline lit at night by electricity generated from our own waste. This is not fantasy. Every element of this vision exists somewhere in Africa today."
YOUTH AND WOMEN RISE
Women Building the Kilifi Economy
Enterprise funds, TVET centers, girls' education support and a dedicated boys program. The young generation will have a county government that fights for them, not against them.
CLEAN COAST AND GREEN ENERGY
Power That Reaches the Home, the Farm, and the Village
Waste-to-Energy technology turns our waste problem into electricity. Clean certified beaches become magnets for tourists and investors. 500+ green jobs created.
What has been missing in Kilifi is not resources. What has been missing is leadership that belongs to the people. That changes in 2027.
Karisa J. Fagio, Gubernatorial Candidate, Kilifi County 2027
KILIFI IN VIEW
The County the World Cannot Ignore
Beaches, farms, markets, people, and possibility.
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Kilifi is Talking. Are You Listening?
Latest updates, photos, and live coverage from across Kilifi County.
View on FacebookCampaign photos and community moments from every corner of Kilifi.
View on InstagramShort-form community video, farming, fishing, youth empowerment, and the movement on the ground.
Watch on TikTokA CALL FOR SUPPORT
Stand With Kilifi. Be Part of the Change.
This campaign will not succeed because of one person's determination. It will succeed because the people of Kilifi, tired, tested, but unbroken, finally decided that enough is enough.
Join the MovementKILIFI YETU. KESHO YETU. USHINDI WETU.
Karisa J. Fagio · Incoming Governor, Kilifi County, Kenya, 2027
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Karisa J. Fagio
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, KILIFI COUNTY, 2027
The 2027 Mandate
Karisa J. Fagio stands for accountable governance, community-first leadership, and the real transformation of Kilifi County's extraordinary potential into improved lives for every family. His candidacy is built on thirty years of lived experience, proven community service, and the belief that government should come to the people, not the other way around.
Download Full CV (PDF)Early Life and Origins
Karisa J. Fagio was born in 1970 in Mijomboni Village, Malindi, Kilifi North Constituency, to parents who never stepped inside a classroom. He lost his father at the age of seven in 1978, the very year he began Standard One. His mother, barely literate, was left alone to feed and raise six children with no income, no land title, and no safety net.
Karisa knows what hunger feels like. He knows what it means to chase bursaries from office to office just to stay in school. He knows what it costs a child to watch a mother cry over school fees. These are not stories from a policy brief. They are the story of his life, and the story of hundreds of thousands of Kilifi families today.
Education: A Journey of Determination
Professional Career
Civic Service Record
For seventeen years, Karisa J. Fagio has been building the Kilifi he believes in, without waiting for a government title to do it. He chased bursaries and worked school holidays to stay in school. He supported his mother and educated his siblings from a student's savings. He lost an election to a powerful incumbent and kept going for seventeen years.
"If I could build something from nothing in a county that gave me nothing, imagine what you can build in a Kilifi that finally has a government working for you."
Why Karisa?
Born of Kilifi
Born in Mijomboni, raised by the county's struggle, and shaped by every hardship that Kilifi families face daily.
Technical Expertise
BSc Biochemistry plus 30 years in agricultural science, development consulting, and international advisory work.
Zero Corruption Risk
Never held county public office. No patronage debts. Clean hands entering the Governor's office on day one.
International Networks
Advising a sitting African President's Foundation. Donor relationships ready to be deployed for Kilifi from day one.
Community-Proven
Seventeen years of civic work, two completed community projects, and zero dependence on government resources.
Agricultural Vision
The only candidate who has personally built and chaired an agricultural value chain in Kilifi County.
The 2027 Mandate for Kilifi
The 2027 election is not merely a contest between candidates. It is a generational decision about the direction of Kilifi County. Karisa J. Fagio represents a break from the patronage politics and governance failures that have held Kilifi back. Operation Mwangaza wa Kilifi is the vehicle for that transformation, and the people of Kilifi are the engine.
Miradi · Projects and Impact
Proven Before the Title
Karisa J. Fagio has not waited for office to act. Every project below was driven by personal conviction, community need, and Kilifi's long-term development, before any government title.
Organised and led Kilifi County's cassava value chain as Chairman of the Kilifi County Cassava Farmers and Processors Association, linking farmers to processors and markets without government support.
County-wide, self-funded behaviour change campaign targeting teenage pregnancy across Kilifi County schools and communities. Entirely self-funded from personal savings.
County-wide democratic renewal initiative targeting all elective positions in Kilifi County for the 2027 General Elections. Co-architected by Fagio as Campaign Governing Council Chairperson.
Lead Consultant at the Joseph Nyuma Boakai Foundation, advising the current President of Liberia's Foundation on national agricultural strategy and rural development.
A community-led safety strategy to address MAWOZA gang violence in Kilifi County, driven entirely by community action and led by Karisa J. Fagio's Campaign Movement with no government involvement required.
A dedicated Kilifi County Industrial Park to host agro-processing clusters and attract Special Economic Zone status, creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs for Kilifi youth.
Five modern fish landing sites along Kilifi's 210km Indian Ocean coastline. 50% of all blue economy licences mandated for women and youth under 35. Your ocean becomes your income.
A complete Early Childhood Development Education centre network across all 35 wards, supported by a free school feeding program using locally sourced farm produce. No child drops out for lack of fees.
Seven sub-county agricultural resource centres with revived extension services in every ward, supporting cashew, mango, coconut, pineapple, cassava, and cotton value chains, plus crop insurance for smallholder farmers.
Maono ya Kilifi · Vision and Policy Platform
A New Kilifi Is Possible.
"Close your eyes and imagine: beaches so clean they carry international certification. A coastline lit at night by electricity generated from our own waste. Fishing communities with modern equipment, cold storage, and fair markets. This is not fantasy. Every single element of this vision exists somewhere in Africa today. What has been missing in Kilifi is not resources. What has been missing is leadership that belongs to the people."
As Chairman of the Kilifi Cassava Value Chain and Lead Agricultural Consultant advising the Government of Liberia, Karisa Fagio brings hands-on, evidence-based agricultural transformation expertise that no other candidate can match.
Kilifi's 210km Indian Ocean coastline is the most underdeveloped economic asset in Kenya. Under a Fagio administration, it becomes a jobs engine for coastal communities, for women, for youth, for every fishing family.
Having educated himself through bursaries and holiday jobs, and having funded his siblings' schooling from a student's pocket, Fagio understands education poverty from the inside. No Kilifi child should start life where he did.
Kilifi's youth and women are not a voting bloc to be flattered. They are an economic force to be equipped, trusted, and given the tools to build the county's future. The blue economy will have jobs with your name on them.
The traditional palm wine (Mnazi) economy of Kilifi's coastal belt represents one of the most overlooked community income streams in the county. A Fagio administration will formally recognise this economy, protect producers, and build a value chain around it.
Fagio has never held county public office. He carries no baggage of corruption, no patronage debts, and no financial interests that conflict with public service. Clean hands in office does not begin at the Governor's desk. It begins in the village, where the people can see it, measure it, and hold it to account.
Kilifi County holds some of Kenya's most extraordinary natural and cultural assets. A Fagio administration will make tourism a serious pillar of the county economy. And devolution will travel all the way to the last village, carrying real money, real authority, and real accountability.
What We Stand Against
The 2027 election is a generational decision. Kilifi County has waited too long for leaders who truly serve. Here is what a Fagio administration opposes and will dismantle from day one.
Leaders who discover Kilifi only at election time and then disappear for five years.
Patronage politics and networks that have failed Kilifi's people for decades.
Public funds disappearing without accountability or transparency to the people.
A county government that ignores farmers, elderly women, and coastal communities.
Children dropping out of school because a county government could not fund their education.
210km of coastline lying underdeveloped while communities remain in poverty.
Uchumi wa Pwani
The Palm Economy Vision in Detail
Thousands of coastal households depend on palm-based livelihoods for daily income. This is a community economy that deserves formal government recognition and structured support.
Formal county policy recognition of Mnazi and palm wine producers as a legitimate economic constituency, with a dedicated line item in the county budget for their support and development.
Support for the formation of producer cooperatives to give palm economy participants collective bargaining power, fair pricing, and access to markets beyond the immediate village economy.
Dedicated support for elderly women engaged in palm-based economic activity. These are the people who have kept this economy alive for generations while governments looked the other way.
Connecting palm economy producers to wider county and regional markets, increasing household income and giving Kilifi's coastal heritage the commercial footprint it deserves.
Picha · Photo Gallery
Kilifi Through Our Eyes
Community engagement, Operation Mwangaza wa Kilifi 2027. Farmers, fishers, women, youth, and elders, the people this campaign is built for.
Nyaraka · Campaign Documents
Official Campaign Materials
Every contract published. Every shilling accounted for. All campaign documents are provided for public transparency. Download, read, and share freely.
The full professional biography of Karisa J. Fagio, from Mijomboni Village to international development advisory. Education, career, civic service, and gubernatorial agenda summarised for voters.
Download PDFThe proposed county governance structure, mandate definition, and leadership roles for the Fagio administration. A transparent blueprint for how a new Kilifi County government will function from day one.
Download PDFThe official public proclamation of Karisa J. Fagio's candidacy for the 2027 Kilifi County gubernatorial seat, KILIFI RISES. OUR TIME IS NOW. The formal statement and vision for Kilifi's future.
Download PDFThe Kikwetu Africa community and development initiative framework, outlining Fagio's broader pan-African vision and its relevance to Kilifi County's development strategy and international partnerships.
Download PDFThe Mawoza community development project framework, a concrete and implementable development initiative designed to deliver measurable impact in Kilifi County communities from year one of the Fagio administration.
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